Jim Patterson 🇨🇦

@sheamuspatt.bsky.social

1994 Followers 583 Following

Old folkie from Ontario. Mostly politics (lefty), heterodox economics, genealogy

Our Mandate Our mandate is clear: to invest the assets of the CPP Fund with a view to achieving a maximum rate of return without undue risk of loss.
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Reducing speeding in real time to keep communities safe. Increased police enforcement means fewer speeding cars. Enhanced signage to improve visibility and safety Speed bumps slow traffic down. Learn more at ontario.ca/ReducingSpeeding Paid for by the Government of Ontario ONTARIO
(Stone archway over road) Gateway of the North City of North Bay
Premier Doug Ford speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for a battery energy storage site on Wednesday, near Spencerville.
opinion Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s transformative playoff run gives him superstar status Cathal Kelly Cathal Kelly Published Yesterday Updated 2 hours ago
Preliminary Results Click on the Close button with your spacebar if you no longer wish to consult the results in the following table. Voting Results for the electoral district of Battle River—Crowfoot Party Candidate Votes Percent of Votes Conservative Pierre Poilievre 40,548 80.4 % Independent Bonnie Critchley 5,013 9.9 % Liberal Darcy Spady 2,174 4.3 % NDP-New Democratic Party Katherine Swampy 1,050 2.1 % United Party of Canada (UP) Grant Abraham 773 1.5 % People's Party - PPC Jonathan Bridges 137 0.3 % Green Party Ashley MacDonald 116 0.2 % Libertarian Michael Harris 102 0.2 % Christian Heritage Party Jeff Willerton 91 0.2 %
Party Seats Percent Share Liberal 168 49.0% 168.07 Conservative 144 42.0% 144.06 NDP 7 2.0% 6.86 Green 1 0.3% 1.029 Bloc Quebecois 23 6.7% 22.981
Raising revenue by taxing extreme wealth As a possible recession looms, New Democrats won’t leave working people to face it alone. We’ll deliver real support when Canadians need it most—and we’ll pay for it by making the ultra-wealthy and big corporations finally pay their fair share. We will maintain the capital gains inclusion rate changes which the Liberal government flip flopped on, and was opposed all along by the Conservatives. As the Minister of Finance said at the time, “only 0.13 per cent of Canadians—with an average annual income of $1.4 million—will be affected by this change in any given year. But millions more, especially younger Canadians, will benefit from it.” Income from flipping stocks should not be taxed at a lower rate than the wages earned by a nurse, a carpenter, a pipefitter, or a teacher. We will rebalance the tax system to ensure it values work as much as wealth. For those at the very top, super-rich multi-millionaires with over $10 million in wealth holdings, we will put in place a graduated wealth tax of 1% for wealth between $10 million and $50 million, 2% from $50 million to $100 million, and 3% for households with net worth over $100 million. We will put in place a 2% surtax on the most profitable corporations – those earning over $500 million in profits. We will take additional measures to tackle corporate tax avoidance, including instituting a 15% minimum tax on corporate book profits, ending tax agreements with known tax havens, requiring corporations to prove a genuine business reason for offshore accounts, and providing additional resources to the Canada Revenue Agency to step up enforcement.
Lower taxes for families, not billionaires COMMITMENT 2025/26 2026/27 2027/28 2028/29 Basic personal amount 11,584 11,887 12,216 12,471 Canada Disability Benefit 1,061 1,370 1,508 1,632 Guaranteed Income Supplement 421 838 1,666 3,311 Capital gains changes outlined in Budget 2024 -1,019 0 0 0 Wealth tax on those with wealth above $10 million -22,755 -23,042 -23,591 -25,098
NDP 41% Conservative 38% Liberal 20%
Conservative 41% NDP 36% Liberal 18% Green 4%
CPC 31% Green 27% NDP 21% Liberal 20%
PM Justin Trudeau bailing out of a plane marked "Liberal Party" as it crashes nose first into the ground by deAdder